The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-13

didatos should BIO questioned. So far as
am concerned, l concede your right to do
so In the same sense in which concsde
the right OF every one OF you 10 iump
INTO the river and drown yourselves. But
at the same time I claim the right to uae
sll legitimate means to prevent you from
doing either.
AN APT ILLUSTRATION.
In fact, you have a precedent for your
proposed action in the celebrated case Of
tho three London tailors. These gentle
men being greatly exercised by m i'm.
sginary sense Of tie corruptions Of the
'old parties," and seeing the necessity,
as they supposed, OF a "nsw and better
party" met together in convention, form
ed themselves into third party and
:olemnly adopted resolutions commsuc.
ing: "We, the people OF England"
Their right to do this was never question
cd. And while the real friends Of the
proposed amendment to the Constitution,
don't question your right to do as you are
doing snd propose to do, they enter their
protect against the offensive manner in
which you ere doing It, ss well as against
'be way in which you parade yourself
before the public.
According to your high and lofty pre-
tentioDs, you and your party have sill
.here is Of political morality, decency,
principle, honesty, truth and purity, to
be found in the State, and you even 20 go
far ia to assert that your Third party is
''the child OF prophecy" Which of tho
prophets pointed you out, you don't say,
but 1t must have been the one which
carried Balssm on his journey with the
Princes OF Moab. i all you claim be
:rus, you are entirely too good and pure
and holy for this sinful world, and tho
sooner you arc carried by angels to
AbIaham's bosom" the better it will be
tor you. And am very sure 1t would
greatly aid tho adoption OF the peadlns
amendment II you. could all be transport.
ed at once to that blisaful abode and kept
there until after the next election. You
say it would be a great benefit to the
cause OF prohibition II I would practice
what l preach.
CONCERNING CONSISTENCY.
Allow mo to tell you that I do practice
just what I preach. At the last election
in this county I voted for two candidates
for the Horss Of Delegates who were elect.
ed and voted to submit the amendment to
the people, while you came here and did
everything IN your power to deisat them.
The third candidate for whom I voted
stood pledged to vote for the submission
of the amendment II eleeted. And in this
one act / claim that I did mose for The
cause Of constitutional ratification in the
State than you and your whole party put
together. tYouparade long list OF quota
tons from liquor organs OF other States to
disproye my statement that the LIQUOR men
in Yves. Virginia favor the organization of
your Third party. have read these QUO
tations and fail to find in them nihgle
reference to Third party organization OF
tho Prohibition force. What they are
Fighting against is the combined Prohibit
ton ios2es in each State and in the Ma
ton, no matter In what party they ore
found. And. OF courae, they were doing
this in the light Of current events. They
had suatained 10 injury at the hands Of
your Third party, but on the contrary
they were greatly indebted to you for the
valuable assistance your party had rem.
dersd theT, in the State Of New York by
drawing of troln the Republican party
votes enough to elect Democratic brewer
Secretary OF State, as we'll as for like ser.
vices rendered them in previous elections.
What troubles them is the Prohibition
forces found in the sold partles,n which
aloue epdangers their traffic. But one oil
the papers you quote refers to the Prohi.
b!tionists as party at ell. And 1t ia
plain that this paper has no reference to
any Third party organizations, but to com.
bined Prohibition forces Wherever found.
THE REAL OBJECT OF THE THIRD PARTY.
When ! wrote my reply to your first ar.
ticle I supposed that yop and your Third
party were, and would continue to be, In
favor Of the adoption Of the pending
amendment at the nezt election but care.
full reading Of your reply under coneider8.
ton has satisfied me that was mistaken.
Your reply from beginning to end shows
that your rdal object Is to build up Third
party in the name ofProhibition, but with
prohibition simply as the incident, and
thst until you attain the object you don't
want the incident. II this is not what you
are after, plesse explain what you mean
by the following: -s
"Havipg, as think, in the foregoing
clearly proven the absolute and imperative
neceeslIy for new and better party In
this State md Nation, both for ito moral
and financial salvation, with or without
reference to the amendment now pond
ing, do not, however, wish to be miaun'
terstood as to my views relative to the
am endment." n i,f-7lzf'
You want "a new and better party in
the State" &c, "without reference to the
amendments" but you don't want to be
misunderstood ss to your views In re-
gard to the amendment, This eavine
clause, 80 awkwardly hitched onto thu
sentence, seems to have suddenly crossed
your mind juat as you had exposed the
real purpose o. your whole Third party
movement. iS5=Fe
But z the question remains, what ar.
yoursrleua In reference to the amendment
Lot us see:
ILLOGICAL CONCLUSION.
You say that tho amendment will be II
danger 'ot becoming by.word and a re
proach" il It be- adopted ''belore party
can be Organised for It's enforcement
And you charge that neither OF tho "olt
parties'' will either pass or execute law
for tho enforcement Of the amendment |
adopted, concedlng at the same time tina
your "new and better party" Is not ye
strong enough for this purpose. The onl,
legitimate conclusion. therefore, whicl
can be drawn from what you say is, tina
rnn dnn't want tho amendmAnt adoDte